Comment by MikeFX, posted on February22 at

Think thats bad go check out road and track, the best they could come up with is a comparison on dhl/fedex/ups delivery trucks.

At least if Saab rebadges an SUV they pick a tried and true success story in the world like the GM-350 chassis. The new Land Rover LR2 rides on a European Ford Focus chassis. Try rebadging a focus into a Land Rover. Are you f*cking kidding me?

GM needs to sell SAAB off and the buyer to make SAAB as SAAB like it used to be!

9-3: Relatively unreliable, relatively unrefined, not as sporty as the competition, not as luxurious as the competition, only thing it has is a cheaper base price, which comes along with a cheaper interior.

9-5: Doesn’t fit any specific category. Too big/not sporty enough to compete with the 3-Series crowd, not luxurious enough/not expensive/still not sporty enough to compete with the 5-Series crowd. The 9-5 shouldn’t exist anymore, they need to replace it w/ a real midsize sport/lux sedan competitor to go against the likes of the 5-series, A6, E-Class, etc. Right now it’s a confused car, in a market of its own. Maybe that’s why it doesn’t sell..not sporty, not very luxurious, not that great looking, not a great deal!

9-2X: Lame. An expensive rebadge of a good Subaru. I personally really like the Impreza/WRX, and that’s how I want it, as an Impreza/WRX, no need to spend thousands more on this overpriced, carbon copy example, though I’m sure the price is probably lowered now that they’re BOMBED.

9-2X: The most degrading vehicle in all of Saab’s history as an automaker. A rebadge version of one of the most awful SUV’s to grace our roads, the Chevy Trailblazer. Possibly what makes this all the more worse is how the Trailblazer is cloned 4 more times across other model lines, you counted right, FOUR. That’s right folks, there are 6 versions of this terribly antiquated, gas guzzling, unreliable SUV around for all of the suburban morons to choose from. This is possibly the most offensive clone of all, as the Saab “”designers”", and I use that word loosely here as they can hardly be called such, attempted to work a little “Saab style” into this truck based poor excuse for a vehicle by putting the key in the center armrest area…by making the air vents “Saab shaped”, by putting a different shade of fake plastic wood in the interior, by grafting on a Saab-esque nose…etc etc etc. These are all just pathetic aesthetic changes to a truly outdated SUV, tiny changes that are supposed to make the consumer think they are buying a real Saab SUV, kind of like how the XC90 is a real Volvo SUV, but in reality this is just another awful rebadged clone supplied by the General himself, and what a TERRIBLE rebadged clone it is.

Do something new Saab, and do something good, not just a noselift.